In Bio Lab, we have tests that in part require us to use a microscope to identify organisms on prepared slide. We have two of these tests this semester.
Mondays before the test we are allowed to go into a lab and review all the slides that could be on the test. Most people come in with a pad of paper and sketch the 20 different slides, and then study from the drawings. This doesn't work for me because I am THAT bad of an artist. Also, it is hard getting sketches on to electronic flash cards.
Instead of drawing the organisms, I write down ordinary things that they look like. So my study notes look like this.
| ORGANISM | DESCRIPTION |
| E Coli | Pink Frog Eggs |
| Foraminifera | Brown - Some look like snails/ some look like sticks |
| Ceratium | Pink Lobster Claws |
| Hydra Budding | Pink Lizard |
| Chara Sex Organs | Looks like a cactus made out of turquoise tissue paper |
| Radiolaria | Looks like black honeycomb and loophas |
| Trypansoma Levisi | Pink Cous Cous with red snakes |
| Paramecium | Like Eggplant with a bruise |
| Treponema | Like Brownish Peubs |
| Euglena | Like Blue rice |
| Spirogyra | Hair with springs in the middle |
| Amoeba | Pink goo thrown at a wall |
| Fern Sporangia Mature | Hang Glider |
| Obelia hydroid colony | Pink octopus tree |
| Pine Staminate Cone | Eyeball/Iris |
| Dipylidium caninum mature gravid | Red Chiclets |
| Pinus Ovule | (up close) River with rafts in it. |
| (from eyeballing it) like a purple leaf | |
| Trichinella spiralis | pink muscle with circles that contain more circles (WORMMMMS) |
| Sponge Skeleton | Red tumbleweed |
| Grantia (Scypha) | Spilled blue sugar in a circle pattern |
| Selaginella strobilus | looks like skinny pine cone |
See, you could memorize this list without EVER seeing the slides and get the 4 questions related to slides on the 50 question lab test right! Go you! Because when you focus on the following prepared slide, you’ll be able to figure out what it is!
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Ceratium or Trichinella spiralis.
Am I right?
Or is it the pink octopus tree?
It's the pink octoupus tree, yes.
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